PARODY SONG-LYRICS
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| Occasional binomials show alliteration (e.g. one and only) |
Word-pair partners start together, help each other, aid — abet,
With black and blue, and beg or borrow, grasp and grab and gain and get.
Like bits and bytes, and bag and baggage, belles and beaus, and do or die,
And birds and bees, and bed and breakfast, born and bred, and crib and cry.
There’s cute and cuddly, cash or carry, big — bad — bold and beautiful,
Command — control, and bread and butter, dos and don’ts, and dutiful,
And clap and clamor, crass and crude, and drunken and disorderly,
And dear departed, dark and dank, and devil and the deep blue sea.
There’s dribs and drabs, and Dungeons — Dragons, dusk ’til dawn, all day and night,
With each and every dine and dash there’s fast and furious fight or flight.
And eyes and ears, and down and dirty, first and foremost, drink and drive,
And fun and frolic, friend or foe, and feast or famine, four or five.
With form and function, fact or fiction, fling (past flung’) — flirta-ation,
And foppery and frippery, and leisure relaxa — ation,
For flee and fly, the flor’ and fauna, flew through flaw, the flies and fleas,
No farm nor factory, fish nor fowl, gives grins and giggles, life of ease.
There’s gruff and grim, and ghosts and goblins, Hell — high water, good as gold,
And guys and gals, and house and home, and hoot and holler, have and hold.
Too hot to handle, his and hers, and hems and haws, and heiress — heir,
Horse — hounds, and hale and hearty, hot and heavy, neither hide nor hair.
There’s hassle — hurry, fire and fury, add insult to injury,
And judge and jury, jams and jellies, sugared Spice Girls — gingery.
And Jack and Jill, and Jew and Gentile, juke and jive, and jeer and joke;
Kit and caboodle, king and country, kill or cure, and kith — kin-folk.
There’s likely lots of others, but so far I can’t imagine ’em —
They’d spread across the alphabet from A (aardvark) to zymogen.
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